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BP to try several oil leak options, none certain

MIAMI (Reuters) - BP will press ahead with a series of short-term options, including one this week, to try to plug its gushing Gulf of Mexico oil well, and these will be attempted before it completes an expected relief well in August, BP Managing Director Bob Dudley said on Sunday.

MIAMI (Reuters) - BP will press ahead with a series of short-term options, including one this week, to try to plug its gushing Gulf of Mexico oil well, and these will be attempted before it completes an expected relief well in August, BP Managing Director Bob Dudley said on Sunday.

"We will keep trying, we will not wait until August," Dudley told CNN's "State of the Union".

But he added: "There is no certainty at these kind of depths".

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